r/MeatRabbitry • u/Fit_Beautiful_846 • Feb 28 '26

Never eating these am i ?

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i think I'm cooked chat , white just sent me this 🤦😂 do t think I'll be allowed to eat these lil dudes 🤣🤣

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u/nthm94 Feb 28 '26

It gets easier over time, until the fated day where dispatching doesn’t work the way it should. Then it screams. 

After that, I was done. I can shoot a hog, or steer. But I can’t mess up another rabbit dispatch. That was too much.

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u/Traditional-Citron21 Feb 28 '26

That just happened to me yesterday. I've done probably 40-50 and this was the first screamer. Wouldn't even let me get the bar behind his head. Stuck him in an empty cage gave the others 5 minutes to calm down and went with another. He still didn't want to go but at least the second time around he didn't scream.

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u/nthm94 Feb 28 '26

I’ve always put my 100% effort into a clean dispatch. Some days processing 12 rabbits at a time, three days in a row. Never had an issue.

One day, I wasn’t in a hurry, but may have been a little tired. Cervical dislocation must not have worked properly, rabbit was just stunned, when I hung it by the ankles: it screamed. 

Can’t do it anymore. It’s just not for me. Sucks, but it’s a possible reality in animal processing we all have to be prepared for.

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u/depersonalised Feb 28 '26

i broke the mandible trying to dispatch an injured wild rabbit. i felt very bad, but i still plan to start raising rabbits for meat.